Wooden Sphere
Fourth Edition 359 • uncommon
- Set
- Fourth Edition
- Collector number
- 359
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Mana cost
- 1 generic mana
- Type
- Artifact
- Colors
- Colorless
- Artist
- Mark Tedin
- Market price
- $0.22
What it does
Whenever a player casts a green spell, you may pay 1 generic mana. If you do, you gain 1 life.
Where you can play it
- StandardNot legal
- PioneerNot legal
- ModernLegal
- LegacyLegal
- VintageLegal
- CommanderLegal
- PauperNot legal
- BrawlNot legal
- HistoricNot legal
- TimelessNot legal
- Penny DreadfulLegal
- OathbreakerLegal
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Where it came from
Wooden Sphere was released in 1995 as part of the Magic: The Gathering Fourth Edition base set, which served as a core collection for the game during its early years of rapid expansion. Originally introduced in the Alpha set, it represents a category of early artifacts designed to provide players with incremental life gain at a low mana cost, reflecting the experimental mechanical balancing of the game's initial design phase.
The card features artwork by Dameon Willich, who contributed numerous illustrations to early Magic expansions. Willich's design for the sphere leans into the minimalist fantasy aesthetic common to the era, utilizing a simple, textured representation of a wooden orb to fit the game's top-down flavor approach. While the card is now considered an underpowered relic of early game design, it remains a nostalgic piece of the game's formative history for long-time collectors.
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